Summary
The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide t... Full description
- Defeat
- Opportunity
- Preparation
- On the open sea
- A change of plans
- Beyond the frontier
- Disarray and tragedy
- Hard choices
- Warnings from the dead
- The unknown
- Pole and paddle, axe and machete
- The living jungle
- On the ink-black river
- Twitching through the woods
- The wild water
- Danger afloat, danger ashore
- Death in the rapids
- Attack
- The wide belts
- Hunger
- The myth of "beneficent nature"
- "I will stop here"
- Missing
- The worst in a man
- "He who kills must die"
- Judgment
- The cauldron
- The rubber men
- A pair of flags.